A MAN who travelled across Dorset during a national lockdown has been fined.

Jake Harry Saunders, aged 20, was not at his home address in Poole on Wednesday, February 24.

He was apprehended outside Weymouth Pavilion during the Covid pandemic when people were restricted from travelling without a reasonable excuse .

Under coronavirus legalisation at the time of the offence, people were ordered to stay at home and work from home if possible, and only leave their home address for specific reasons.

These included to shop for food and/or medicine for themselves or a vulnerable person, to provide care or help to a vulnerable person, to exercise, seek medical treatment or attention or meet their support bubble.

People were also urged to only travel locally in a bid to minimise the spread of Covid.

Saunders, of Sheringham Road, Poole, pleaded guilty to the charge under the single justice procedure.

The defendant was fined £320 fine and order to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £34 victim surcharge.